You want to make it easy on your self so make sure you skim coat as even as possible other wise you will be sanding down the cement for daysss! Another tip that might help is you can make half of your batch of cement at a time for a few sections at a time because the Henry’s Feather Finish cement mix dries FAST! Spread out evenly over your plywood and backer board base. We ended up using the entire box for the first layer. Start by following the directions on the box of the cement mix. Here’s a picture of some of the supplies we used (We eventually used more supplies after the picture was taken):
Sand Paper in 220 grit 120 grit & 80 grit.Now that the base is finished and ready for cement I recommend taping everything off like we did because it will be a MESS! You can totally just use plywood as your base if you wanted though. We wanted to use backer board as a layer to help with moisture and the extra thickness. Once the plywood was all placed it was time to add the backer board all around the plywood. Then, we siliconed all of the plywood down onto the base cabinets. Me made our measurements and cut out where the sink would be on the plywood and set it on top of the sink then used the sink brackets to attach the sink to the plywood. It definitely was a little intimidating thinking about how we would spread this concrete around the built in sink. We were able to get our entire countertop amount out of the whole 1 1/8 inch plywood board which was awesome because the one board cost about $60 and we didn’t want to go get another one for just a little bit of countertop left.Īs for the sink, I was dead set on having an under mount farmhouse sink with these counters. We wanted to stick close to a 2inch thick counter thickness but you can totally add another sheet of any size plywood for your desired thickness. So here’s our process:įirst, after having our cabinets and sink completely installed we built our base counter top out of 1 1/8inch thick plywood and 1/2 inch thick backer board. You can build a frame around your cabinets and pour them on or you can skim coat them on existing counters or what we did was build a base to skim coat the concrete onto. There are a couple popular ways to do concrete countertops.
Concrete skim coat countertop how to#
So when I saw these concrete countertops I was like how the heck could we pull those off ourselves without hiring a professional? Well we both did A LOT of research on these and not just how to do them or what others did but what not to do and how to keep from messing up. Seriously the only thing we hire out is service on our air conditioner. CJ and I are totally into doing home improvement and projects ourselves. We have countertops in our new kitchen!! Not just any countertops but concrete countertops!! I have always wanted to have concrete countertops ever since I first saw them which I think was watching Fixer Upper on HGTV.
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